Texas Inter Pop Festival 1969 (Grand Funk-Led Zeppelin-Janis Joplin-Santana...).avi

The Texas International Pop Festival was a music festival held at Lewisville, Texas, on Labor Day weekend, August 30-September 1, 1969. It occurred two weeks after Woodstock. The site for the event was the newly-opened Dallas International Motor Speedway, located on the east side of Interstate Highway 35E, across from the Round Grove Road intersection.[1]

The festival was the brainchild of Angus G. Wynne III, son of Angus G. Wynne, the founder of the Six Flags Over Texas Amusement Park.[2][3] Wynne was a concert promoter who had attended the Atlanta International Pop Festival on the July Fourth weekend. He decided to put a festival on near Dallas, and joined with the Atlanta festival's main organizer, Alex Cooley,[4] forming the company Interpop Superfest.

Artists performing at the festival were: Led Zeppelin, B.B. King, Canned Heat, Chicago (then called Chicago Transit Authority), Delaney and Bonnie and Friends, Freddie King, Grand Funk Railroad, Herbie Mann, Incredible String Band, James Cotton, Janis Joplin, Johnny Winter, Nazz, Rotary Connection, Sam and Dave, Santana, Shiva's Headband, Sly and the Family Stone, Space Opera, Spirit, Sweetwater, Ten Years After and Tony Joe White.[2][3]

North of the festival site was the campground on Lewisville Lake, where hippie attendees skinny-dipped and bathed.[3][5] Also on the campground was the free stage, where some bands played after their main stage gig and several bands not playing on the main stage performed. It was on this stage that Wavy Gravy, head of the Hog Farm commune, acquired his name.[2] (At Woodstock, he was Hugh Romney.)

The Merry Pranksters, Ken Kesey's group, was in charge of the free stage and camping area. While Kesey was neither at the Texas event nor at Woodstock, his right hand man, Ken Babbs, and his psychedelic bus, Further (Furthur) were.[6] The Hog Farm provided security, a trip tent, and free food.[7]

Attendance at the festival remains unknown, but is estimated between 120,000 and 150,000.[3][4] As with Woodstock, there were no violent crimes reported.[5][7] There was one death, due to heatstroke, and one birth.[4]

High-quality soundboard bootleg recordings of almost the entire festival are circulated on the internet.[8] Led Zeppelin's set is one of the most popular Led Zeppelin bootlegs due to the high technical and musical quality of the performance.[1]

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[HISTORYDUDE2112]

Thanks for sharing.. I have a VHS copy of this that I snagged a long time ago..

[G8GT364CI]

What a great video, thanks for the upload.

[CobbleHatt]

My husbands family was in California and we called to rush back to Lewisville, the hippies were going to invade the homes and the police dept had bought machine guns!!

[Offbeat77]

I was there. It was a last-minute trip from central KS with a friend and his girlfriend and one I'll never forget.

[Phenomenon58]

@zu0832 Lucky bastard

[zu0832]

@brown9708 wow...

[zu0832]

This video is pure genius....by the way, I was there

[07504201963]

Tony joe! Man,what a brother!

[SeattleLA]

Great to see Terry Kath 40:54

[brown9708]

I35 and Hebron(round grove) road near 121 tollway north of dallas. Nothing left. No car racing circuit or drag strip, just warehouses and malls